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5. Any of the previous classes with the interspaces filled (PI. B, T). This is 

 a very common and often effedive design ; where the spaces were small the color was 

 added by the single pen, if larger by the hala brush. 



6. Lines straight, single or clustered interspersed with minute figures or dots 

 (Fig. 126, PI. 46, upper figure). 



7. Geometric figures stamped either in block (Pis. A, G) as borders (Pis. B, K, 

 L, M, N), or in rhombs, zigzags (Pi. 44), covering the greater part of the surface of 



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FIG. 125. THE BENT KNEE PATTERN. 



the sheet. Some specimens of this last variety show not merely exactness of execu- 

 tion, but great patience in covering seventy or eighty square feet of kapa, the stamps 

 in two or more colors (PI. G). 



8. Detached figures, usually geometric (Fig. 127, Pis. K, W), sometimes (in 

 more modern examples) in rude imitation of natural objects (Fig. 69). 



9. Figures (stamped) of irregular outline arranged as borders or transverse 

 bands (Pis. A, G, L, N). 



10. Stamps of natural objects (PI. F). As we have seen in Fig. 4 the Tahiti- 

 an fern stamped, and in Fig. 7 the end of a banibu joint, so in Hawaii natural objects 



